'Mardi Gras' card from Imagination Craft's 'Masquerade' Collection.

 Good evening Lovelies,

Hope you are all well.   Thank you so much for your lovely comments and visits to my last blog post, they mean a great deal to me and are what keeps me making more, so thank you again.

Tonight I have another card, made using the fabulous rice papers from Imagination Craft's 'Masquerade' collection, hope you like this one.

 Cover a 7" square of white card with the rice paper using the decoupage glue.

Lay the flourish design from the stencil onto the top left corner and spread thee black structure paste through the design, using a metal spatula.    Use either the blue masking tape as I have done or the Cadence stencil spray to secure the stencil to the card, whilst applying the structure paste.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

From the second piece of rice paper of the same design, cut out the section of the mask and glue this to a piece of white card, using the decoupage glue.   Whilst this is drying, lay the stencil back onto the 7" square background card, positioning the word 'Mardi'  over the bottom set of windows on the background and spread black structure paste through the word.    Remove the stencil and leave to dry.

Next reposition the word 'Mardi' over the original image and stipple the Cadence  rich gold, wine and vivid green  metallic paints over the top of the black structure paste using a stencil brush.

Take a square of black card slightly bigger than the background card and lay the background card on top and using the word 'Gras' from the stencil, judge where the 'Gras' should be positioned in the bottom left corner of the black card.   Tape the stencil in position and remove the background for the moment.   Using the stencil brush, stipple the three metallic paints through the stencil.  Remove stencil and leave to dry.   (I did not use the structure paste this time, just the metallic paints.)

Fix this black card to an 8" x 8" ivory base card.

Matt the background card onto the black matt, leaving the word 'Gras' showing in the bottom left.

Die-cut the large flourish and the small feather from black card and colour with the Cadence rich gold finger wax, not necessary to cover them completely, as a little black showing in the odd place gives an aged look to them.

Next colour a piece of white card with a mixture of the Cadence wine and champagne metallic paints

 

Cut out a circle, then cut round and round the inside of the circle, creating a spiral.   Roll this up using a quilling tool or your fingers and add some glue to stop it unwinding again.

   Glue the rose to the bottom left corner.

Glue the feather to the left side and the flourish to the bottom right.

Trim around the mask which was glued to white card and using sticky foam pads, fix to the original image on the background..

Well that's this card finished, hope you like it.   I'll be back again soon with another card.  In the meantime, be kind, be safe and keep well everyone.

                                                                      Love and rainbows,

                                                                      Hugs   Jennifer xx.